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BBC - The Code - The Wisdom of the Crowd

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BBC - The Code - The Wisdom of the Crowd

Marcus du Sautoy of the BBC demonstrates the wisdom of the crowd, showing that averaging many guesses of jelly beans in a jar lands near the true count.

Used as a quick, convincing demonstration of crowd estimation when discussing aggregated judgment.

3 Hacker News mentions · 2013–2016

Topics

  • Probability & game theory
  • Recreational & visual math

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